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1983; Tarone, Cohen & Dumas, 1983; Varadi, 1983; Wagner, 1983). Indeed, the
above two publications by Canale and Swain (1980) and Faerch and Kasper (1983c)
were applied as the primary references by the increasing number of researchers in
this field, who focused on various issues and conducted their studies in the 1980s
(e.g., Bialystok, 1983; Canale, 1983; Faerch & Kasper, 1983a, 1983b, 1984;
Kellerman, Bongaerts & Poulisse, 1987; Kumaravadivelu, 1989; Paribakht, 1985;
Tarone, 1980, 1981, 1983).
Truly, the 1980s was a time many scholars increased their interest in studying
communication strategies. During this time, the Netherlands became a research
center of communication strategies because a group of professors and scholars in
Nijmegen University had carried out many studies. The projects they conducted shed
light on previous definitions, classifications, and theories of communication
strategies (Bongaerts, Kellerman & Bentlage, 1987; Kellerman, Bongaerts &
Poulisse, 1987; Kellerman, Ammerlaan, Bongaerts & Poulisse, 1990; Poulisse,
1987).
Furthermore, in the 1990s, several significant monographs were published.
One of the most important works was Bialystok’s Communication Strategies: A
Psychological Analysis of Second Language Use. In this work, the definitions and
theories of communication strategies developed by Corder (1977, 1978, 1983),
Faerch and Kasper (1983a, 1983b), Kellerman (1978, 1984, 1987), Paribakht (1982,
1985), Poulisse (1987, 1989), Tarone (1979, 1980, 1981), Varadi (1980), and many
other scholars in this field at that time were introduced. Later, many in-depth
empirical, interpretative, or conceptual papers were published. The researchers in the
1990s mainly investigated the relations between strategy application and different
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